Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 3, 2024

The Textile Recycling Association (TRA) are sounding the alarm about the imminent collapse of the textile recycling sector due to global market challenges. “As the recognised trade association for over 75% of the UK’s Used Textiles collectors and sorters, we have been made aware of their plight by our members,” said the statement. “There is real fear in the industry about being unable to collect from charity shops, recycling centres and community textile banks, due to reaching

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Renew Economy

APRIL 3, 2024

AEMC makes good on promise to fast-track universal smart meter uptake, with draft determination it says will help put consumers at the forefront of the shift to net zero. The post Smart meters for all? New reforms could put 2030 target in reach appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 3, 2024

Flooding on Stephen Watkins Worcestershire farm in 2024. A scheme to support flood-hit farmers must open as soon as possible, the Country Land and Business Association (CLA) has urged, after one of the wettest and stormiest winters in decades. As spring blooms and lambing continues across the UK, thousands of acres of prime food-producing land remain submerged or waterlogged, following months of relentless rainfall and the wettest 12 month-period in 150 years.

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Renew Economy

APRIL 3, 2024

Another giant wind project is emerging in south-west NSW, covering more than 400 sq kilometres near the route of the new link with South Australia. The post Westwind eyes new 1.5GW wind project in south-west NSW appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions

In today's industrial landscape, the pursuit of sustainable energy optimization and decarbonization has become paramount. Manufacturing corporations across the U.S. are facing the urgent need to align with decarbonization goals while enhancing efficiency and productivity. Unfortunately, the lack of comprehensive energy data poses a significant challenge for manufacturing managers striving to meet their targets.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 3, 2024

Countries often inflate their emissions forecasts on which they base their climate pledges, according to new research from Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU). The pledges of many countries to reduce carbon emissions essentially don’t require them to deviate from business-as-usual trajectories, at a time when global climate targets can no longer be achieved unless drastic measures are taken.

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Renew Economy

APRIL 3, 2024

China is delivering stunning reductions in the cost of wind and solar. Will it flow through to Australia? The post With luck, China’s stunning cuts in the cost of wind and solar will feed through to Australia appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Renew Economy

APRIL 3, 2024

NSW solar farms dominate output rankings in month of March, as overall wind and solar output leaps 17 pct from a year ago. The post Sun shone on NSW solar farms in March, while wind again blew best out west appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Impact Alpha

APRIL 3, 2024

Greetings Agents of Impact! In today’s Brief: Featured: 2030 Finance Blending billions: Lessons from more than three dozen big blended finance transactions. Deal. The post The Brief: Billion-dollar blended-finance transactions appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Renew Economy

APRIL 3, 2024

Two-thirds of opportunities in the green economy are yet to grab investor attention, the co-founder of Sun Cable says. The post Sun Cable co-founder urges “big bets” on solar and battery recycling, and green exports appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Charged

APRIL 3, 2024

Sponsored by Keysight. Keysight explores technology advancements to save money and keep the planet green In an effort to make the earth a greener place for the next generation while lowering costs, technology companies are creating innovative eco-friendly products. A comprehensive approach to testing can bring additional savings through a reduction of waste energy.

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Speaker: Ayesha Choudhury - Senior Vice President, Head of Capital Markets at Infinium

With the first wave of the energy transition, renewable energy sources (such as solar and wind) have begun replacing coal power generation. However, some sectors are lagging behind and struggling to decarbonize more than others, including large-scale transportation like commercial aviation, shipping, and rail transit. Electrofuels (aka eFuels) are the next generation of solutions to help the hardest-to-abate sectors pivot from their reliance on fossil fuels.

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Renew Economy

APRIL 3, 2024

Australia used public monies to build coal power plants and subsidies diesel imports, so why not back local solar production. The post Solar Sunshot puts Australia in global cleantech race, and Liddell is the perfect venue appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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POWER Magazine

APRIL 3, 2024

The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) has moved to retire its iconic 1.3-GW Kingston Fossil Plant in Tennessee in 2027 and replace it—with notable urgency—with a 1.5-GW modern complex featuring a […] The post TVA to Replace Iconic Kingston Coal Plant With 1.5-GW Modern Complex appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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Charged

APRIL 3, 2024

ACEL Power , a startup founded in 2021, has added two offerings to its lineup of electric outboard motors. The introduction of the new IE150 and IE250 models expands the ACEL line to 4 models. The model numbers denote horsepower, so the existing IE50 and IR75 deliver 50 and 75 hp respectively; the IE150 delivers 150 hp (110 kW) and the IE250 delivers 250 hp (185 kW).

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Renew Economy

APRIL 3, 2024

Households and businesses led the renewable energy transition in NSW, offsetting a fall in large scale wind and solar. The post Households and businesses are leading Australia’s race to renewables and electrification appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Speaker: Nik Gowing, Brenda Laurel, Sheridan Tatsuno, Archie Kasnet, and Bruce Armstrong Taylor

With 191 country signatories to the Paris Climate Agreement now hard at work in the race to zero carbon by 2050, much of the heavy lifting in ecosystem sustainability falls on the shoulders of the world's densely populated urban centers. This conversation considers how today's AI-enabled simulation media, such as AR/VR, can be effectively applied to accelerate learning, understanding, training, and solutions-modeling to sustainability planning and design.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

APRIL 3, 2024

The former Olympic village in Japan is now home to one of the nation’s largest H2 stations. The Tokyo Olympics may be long over, but hydrogen, which played a role during the event, continues to live on at the site that was once the Olympics and Paralympics main athlete’s village. According to the Tokyo Metropolitan Government (TMG), an H2 refueling station was recently opened at the former site and is one of the largest in the country.

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Science Daily: Renewable Energy

APRIL 3, 2024

Lanthanide elements are important for clean energy and other applications. To use them, industry must separate mixed lanthanide sources into individual elements using costly, time-consuming, and waste-generating procedures. An efficient new method can be tailored to select specific lanthanides. The technique combines two substances that do not mix and that prefer different types of lanthanides.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 3, 2024

Half of the board members at the world’s six largest advertising and public relations companies have ties to polluting industries, DeSmog can reveal. Of the 64 total board members at Omnicom Group , WPP , Interpublic Group (IPG), Publicis Groupe , Dentsu and Havas , 32 have significant experience in carbon-heavy sectors such as fossil fuels, fossil fuel financing, plastics, utilities, and aviation.

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CleanTech Group

APRIL 3, 2024

Global Infrastructure that Relies on Plastics The global utilization of plastics in our everyday lives has made it seemingly impossible to imagine life. The post Biodegradable Bioplastics: Decarbonizing a “Throw-Away Economy” Built on Cheap and Durable Plastics appeared first on Cleantech Group.

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Speaker: Bruce Armstrong Taylor, Co-Founder & Managing Director of SmartNations Foundation, Jimmy Jia, Venture Partner at Pi Labs, Fabienne Durand, Senior Advisor to the SmartNations Foundation, & Roger Strukhoff, Executive Director of the Tau Institute

The Climate 4.0 Economy. Climate change is here. We see it in many ways already. Weather catastrophes: Texas freezing over, the wildfires of California, the increasingly unpredictable violence and frequency of hurricanes, the rapid melting and disappearance of polar ice caps. Much more evidence all around us. What can we do in our corporate organizations, in our homes and communities, to change the current course?

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Hydrogen Fuel News

APRIL 3, 2024

Catalytic converters are essential for reducing vehicle emissions, but they have also become a target for theft due to the valuable metals they contain. This issue has increased in recent years, with thieves seeking out these parts for their value on the black market. The ease of removing catalytic converters from vehicles makes them particularly vulnerable , prompting a need for increased protection and awareness among vehicle owners.

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 3, 2024

French energy and petroleum company TotalEnergies has announced the development of a battery project in Belgium, which will help manage grid congestion problems. The project, announced on the occasion of Belgian Energy Minister Tinne Van der Straeten’s visit to TotalEnergies’ Antwerp refinery battery storage project, will be developed on the site of TotalEnergies’ depot in Feluy.

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Canary Media

APRIL 3, 2024

This story was first published by Grist. A landfill is a place of perpetual motion, where mountains of garbage rise in days and crews race to contain the influx of ever more trash. Amid the commotion, an invisible gas often escapes unnoticed, warming the planet and harming our health: methane.

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Science Daily: Renewable Energy

APRIL 3, 2024

Researchers have used a genetic learning algorithm to identify optimal pitch profiles for the blades of vertical-axis wind turbines, which despite their high energy potential, have until now been vulnerable to strong gusts of wind.

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POWER Magazine

APRIL 3, 2024

Sunnova Energy International Inc., an adaptive energy services company, announced continued investments and expansion to its virtual power plant (VPP) network, providing increased reliability, reduced emissions, and lower costs. With […] The post Virtual Power Plant Network Supports the Grid and Compensates Customers appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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The Guardian: Energy

APRIL 3, 2024

Researchers applaud move away from fossil fuels but say more must be done to mitigate effects on endangered species Up to a third of Africa’s great apes are threatened by a boom in mining projects for minerals required for the renewable energy transition, new research shows. An estimated 180,000 gorillas, bonobos and chimpanzees are at risk due to an increase in demand for critical minerals such as copper, lithium, nickel and cobalt, a study has found.

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POWER Magazine

APRIL 3, 2024

Ameren Transmission Company of Illinois (ATXI), a subsidiary of St. Louis-based Ameren Corp., has been selected by the Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO), the regional transmission operator for large parts […] The post ATXI Chosen to Develop Grid Reliability Project in Northern Missouri appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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TechCrunch: Climate

APRIL 3, 2024

Discover the forefront of hard tech innovation in an exclusive session sponsored by HAX at TechCrunch Early Stage 2024. Led by SOSV general partner Duncan Turner and HAX chief science officer Dr. Susan Schofer, and moderated by SOSV’s Sabriya Stukes, this session offers a deep dive into the world of hard tech entrepreneurship. With a […] © 2024 TechCrunch.

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TechXplore

APRIL 3, 2024

As any surfer will tell you, waves pack a powerful punch. Now, we are one step closer to capturing the energy behind the ocean's constant ebb and flow with an improved "blue energy" harvesting device.

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Solar Power World

APRIL 3, 2024

This is the third and final installment of an article series exploring the opportunities and pitfalls of the current guidance on the IRA’s Low-Income Communities Bonus Credit Program for community solar. In part one, we looked at the ways that the guidance inadvertently lets down low-income households by mandating unnecessarily strict methods for the delivery… The post Guest column: Low-income community solar IRA incentives <br><span style='color:#404040;font-weight:600;fo

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Canary Media

APRIL 3, 2024

Martin Keighley, CEO of CarbonFree , thinks his carbon capture company offers a "unique proposition" compared to its competitors: It can actually make money, today. On Wednesday, the San Antonio, Texas-based company announced its first large-scale effort to prove that proposition — a $150 million project at U.S.

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TechXplore

APRIL 3, 2024

If you imagine an industrial wind turbine, you likely picture the windmill design, technically known as a horizontal-axis wind turbine (HAWT). But the very first wind turbines, which were developed in the Middle East around the 8th century for grinding grain, were vertical-axis wind turbines (VAWT), meaning they spun perpendicular to the wind, rather than parallel.

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Science Daily: Renewable Energy

APRIL 3, 2024

Researchers show that using magnetic fields can boost electrocatalysis for sustainable fuel production by enhancing the movement of the reactants, which improves the efficiency of energy-related reactions.

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TechXplore

APRIL 3, 2024

For more than two millennia, paper has been a staple of human civilization. But these days, the use of paper is not limited to writing. It is also playing a pivotal role in ushering in a greener future.

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Energy Storage News

APRIL 3, 2024

The BESS 'land grab' looks set to continue as Tier 2 companies vie for market share before countries potentially curb imports from China, with one developer suggesting the recent CATL-Duke Energy case will "not be unique”.

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